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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

WHERE'S ALL THE SHOUTING, BABEEEEEEY? If he'd speak as he writes, I might actually listen to him on TV. A well thought-out article (at least to this homer).

"The most important of all was that of the Catholepistimiad, considered not as a University proper, but in its true character, a village school." Education in Michigan during the Territorial Period, Lucy M. Salmon, 1884.

I'm very critical of the ESPN monopoly of sporting news and their constant bending it to fit an agenda (just like any other news media outlet), but I can definitely get behind this. I watched Michigan stun #2 Duke in basketball and saw no coverage on SportsCenter of that game for over an hour and a half. It pissed me off at ESPN and at "Dicky V", who is constantly all over only Duke and UNC.
With that said, he has totally redeemed himself with this article.

I met Dicky V down in Florida one Spring Break - sat down and talked to him for a few minutes. He is one of the nicest people I have ever met. He is down to earth and is definitely not the spaz he seems to be on TV. Nice article - doesn't surprise me.

Vitale is as passionate about sports as it gets. One of the great benefits of his passion is that he always finds time to "do his homework" instead of taking the lazy way out like so many in the MSM do.

Those of us who are old enough to remember the unbelievable resurrection job Vitale did at UD are not surprised by his defense of a coach who works as hard as RR does.

It's great to see another positive article to help balance the crap that's been out there lately.